YouTube starts showing 90-second unskippable ads to TV viewers(9to5google.com)
20 pointsby Brajeshwar5 hours ago5 comments
  • thot_experiment3 hours ago
    It's eternally crazy to me that people tolerate advertising, it's just something I've never been able to wrap my head around. It's like someone telling me they don't mind peeing their pants or support israel or something, it's just like, I understand the words you are saying but I cannot put myself into a position where they make sense. You have a finite amount of time on earth, why would you waste any of it watching ads?
    • nom2 hours ago
      When they see an ad, they see something completely different than you do. They don't see evil corporations trying to exploit human psychology, they just see funny videos and interesting new things to buy.
    • gdulli2 hours ago
      I do want to know what new movies are coming out. I do want to know what new restaurants open. Advertising is information, most of it isn't useful but some of it is, and a halfway intelligent adult can separate the fact from the opinion.

      I don't want ad tech and surveillance capitalism, I don't tolerate services with unskippable ads. Regular TV commercials are skippable with a DVR, which is critical. It's tech companies that turned advertising from sometimes helpful/usually annoying into unacceptable.

      There's a game of one-upsmanship here to express the least possible tolerance for advertising in general, which I don't get. It's not a cancer on society, it's a necessary thing that's gotten dumb and out of hand.

    • DuncanCoffee2 hours ago
      I feel strongly about advertising. Long before streaming, my parents used to leave the ads on in between programs, and it always made me mad. I think my ADD comes into play, the idea of voluntarily watching them feels really strange.

      I also wonder how the world would change if we made targeted advertising illegal. One can dream...

  • xvxvx3 hours ago
    Their Roku app is all but unusable because of the ads. I just download the videos I want to watch and stream via Plex. I won’t pay them a penny due to their insanely unfriendly behavior. You can guarantee these ads will appear more and more on paid subscriptions in the future.
    • lemonish97an hour ago
      Try Playlet. Lookup the git repo. Has some really cool features like auto-skipping in-video sponsored ads too.
  • lemonish97an hour ago
    The only solutions to anyone now are ad-blockers (that work) and premium. I still don't see the latter being successful, especially outside the US.
  • tuwxyz2 hours ago
    TizenTube - Ad-free and sponsor-free experience on your Samsung TV.

    https://tizentube.6513006.xyz/

  • mikece4 hours ago
    Sounds like a reason to just watch regular TV to me.